![]() Then the third or fourth act is me jumping off the Stratosphere. For the second one, we do all the rides at the Stratosphere on the top. So in Las Vegas today we are doing a huge slip-and-slide in Lake Mead, which is something people in the area do. So each show consists of three or four different events, all kind of intense, but crescendoing with the most intense. ![]() I love watching four different meals in one show. Food, for example, there are four different meals that he’s eating in each episode. That’s what I love about what Travel Channel does. In the 10 episodes there are 30 or 40 things I’ll be doing. There are four acts in each show, with three or four events, or sometimes five. There are 10 episodes in the first season. I’m speculating, but I think the producers were looking for another guy but they called my old manager and he called me and said, “This show is really up your alley.” I would go out and do an adventure or take dangerous jobs. It was the same type of show - single host and reality-driven. How did the show come about?īert Kreischer: I’d done a show in the past called Hurt Bert. Here are Kreischer’s thoughts on Bert the Conqueror, airing Wednesdays beginning June 16 on Travel Channel (HD), as well as the life-changing Rolling Stone article that started his career. Not having acrophobia - which Kreischer admits he suffers from - would help, too. Though, with the Stratosphere SkyJump, that family would have to be more than a little crazy. It is, Kreischer says, a way of revealing adventures that any family can do on a weekend. The feat was the most daunting in a series that has the comedian visiting towns across the country, tackling some of the local extreme rides and sports and reporting on them. But when I talked with Bert Kreischer, he was in Las Vegas recovering from the most harrowing event he’d filmed for his Travel Channel series Bert the Conqueror - a 108-story free fall off the top of the Stratosphere Hotel. I’ve never spoken to anyone suffering from a near-death experience before. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window).Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window).
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